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French Bishops Visit Iraqi Christians
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Aug 4, 2014 at 7:00 pm Archbishop of Lyons Philippe Barbarin says despite their difficulties, Iraqi Christians give great witness and joy. Last week, Cardinal Barbarin and two other French bishops...
India's Bishops to Observe 'Black Day' to Demand Justice for Dalit Christians, Muslims
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Aug 4, 2014 at 7:00 pm An ecumenical coalition of Christian leaders, including the Indian bishops' conference, plans to observe next Sunday as Black Day to protest discrimination against Dalit...
Catholic Schools, Firing Policies and Teacher Misconduct
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Aug 4, 2014 at 7:00 pm By E. Christian Brugger This publication is the first in a collaborative series between The Cardinal Newman Society and the Culture of Life Foundation on Catholic education...
Place Matters
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Aug 4, 2014 at 7:00 pm Here is last week's column from Bishop James Conley of Lincoln, Nebraska, printed in the Southern Nebraska Register. * * *
To be a good writer, said the novelist and famous...
Leader of Iraq's Largest Christian Community Asks People to Join Aug. 6 Prayer Day
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Aug 4, 2014 at 7:00 pm The leader of Iraq’s largest Christian community has joined with an international Catholic charity, calling for a global day of prayer for peace in Iraq on the feast of the...
August 5: Snow Fell on Rome
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Aug 4, 2014 at 7:00 pm August 5 celebrates a miracle of the Virgin Mary in central Rome. Marking the feast day of Our Lady of Snows, today is the perfect time to look at the story behind the papal...
Suspension of Nicaraguan Maryknoll priest lifted
Catholic News Agency - General - Aug 4, 2014 at 6:57 pm Managua, Nicaragua, Aug 4, 2014 / 05:57 pm (CNA).- Pope Francis has revoked the 'suspension a divinis' of Fr. Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, who was in 1984 barred from exercising his...
Police Raid Euthanasia Group’s Office After Giving Drug to Man Who Killed Himself
LifeNews.com - Aug 4, 2014 at 6:28 pm An hour after Philip Nitschke met today with South Australian Police over the recent nembutal death, in Adelaide, of former Voluntary Euthanasia Party Senate candidate, Max...
Reception of the Choir Habit
Saint Louis Catholic - Aug 4, 2014 at 6:17 pm Deacons of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest, to be ordained to the priesthood tomorrow.
Guardian of the Galaxy Actor Chris Pratt: Preemie Baby “Renewed Our Faith in God”
LifeNews.com - Aug 4, 2014 at 6:13 pm In August of 2012, Guardian of the Galaxy actor, Chris Pratt, and his wife Anna Faris welcomed their first-born son, Jack Pratt to their family. The stars told PEOPLE Magazine...
Speaking of archbishops…
The Deacon's Bench - Aug 4, 2014 at 6:06 pm …and where they live…here’s one, hanging out where he lives. This picture is suddenly making the rounds again (I wonder why?), but dates from May 2013. Nice. But between the long...
Timely Advice, from the 1st Century
Quartermaster of the Barque - Aug 4, 2014 at 6:01 pm It is now the year of Our Lord, 2014, and there is some timely advice from St. Barnabas, Apostle (from Sunday’s Office of Readings), that’s only almost 2,000 years old:
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Tulsa bishop urges prayer, fasting in response to black mass
Catholic News Agency - General - Aug 4, 2014 at 6:01 pm Tulsa, Okla., Aug 4, 2014 / 05:01 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A novena of prayer and fasting leading up to the Feast of the Assumption has been planned to combat the Satanic black mass...
Subsidized Child Abuse
Quartermaster of the Barque - Aug 4, 2014 at 6:00 pm No one — no one! — is entitled to a child. Children are a gift from God, the “supreme gift of marriage.” Only the child is entitled to certain things from his parents: “to be the...
“The priest has his back to the people!” (Not.) VIDEO
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Aug 4, 2014 at 5:46 pm From Joseph Shaw of the Latin Mass Society in England.
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Pleas and prayers for refugee children
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Aug 4, 2014 at 5:38 pm Archbishop John Nienstedt joins with other faith leaders at the Faith Action Vigil for Children and Families at the Border Aug. 3 at the Ramsey County Detention Center in St. Paul...
High Five or Prayer
The Curt Jester - Aug 4, 2014 at 5:36 pm
There seems to be some confusion about what certain emoji actually mean. Gawker brings us word that a TV station in Philadelphia described the emoji pictured above as being for a...
European pro-life effort petitions court to be considered for vote
Catholic News Agency - General - Aug 4, 2014 at 5:34 pm Brussels, Belgium, Aug 4, 2014 / 04:34 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A European Union citizens’ initiative to ban human embryo-destroying research has filed a court petition after being...
Couple Takes Heartbreaking Photos With Their Stillborn Daughter to Remember Her
LifeNews.com - Aug 4, 2014 at 5:27 pm A California couple decided to remember their stillborn daughter by hiring a professional photographer to take special pictures of them with her so they would have a touching...
Here’s One Consequence of Artifical Contraception *not* envisioned by Humanae Vitae:
Quartermaster of the Barque - Aug 4, 2014 at 5:06 pm Mutant “Intersex” fish swimming in public waterways:
A sampling of certain male fish were found to be carrying female eggs.
These “intersex” fish were not only in the Delaware but...
